Thursday, November 24, 2011

Fring on nokia 5800

I recently had the problem of not being able to sign into fring on my nokia 5800. I could connect to wifi in the network connection manager of the phone but the fring connection manager that pops up when fring starts was not seeing the right spelling on my wifi network. To fix it first I tried to soft reset and then hard reset the phone and I discovered fring worked if I did not insert the memory card back into the phone. When I inserted the memory card back into the phone, some settings or files were installed for fring and the files were corrupt.To get around this I put all the files from the memory card into a subfolder on the card. I did this file relocation by plugging the phone on to my PC via the USB cable and selecting the mass storage mode on the phone. I am now using the fring install file I got from m.fring.com and which is automatically saved to the memory card - Downloads folder. Also now, the Applications screen is scrolling smoothly, which it was not doing before the format.


I got info on how to hard/soft reset the phone from
http://discussions.europe.nokia.com/t5/Nseries-and-Symbian-Smartphones/How-to-hard-reset-Nokia-5800-Xpress-Music/td-p/490969/page/2
Please make backup before applying this type of reset, since it will restore the phone's settings to factory default as well as erasing all the data in the phone memory.
 1st option
Soft Reset (when you CAN still use the phone's touchscreen)
 You need to use the touchscreen dialer to enter these codes:
  1. *#7780# if you want to restore factory settings only and it will NOT delete data.
  2.  *#7370# if you want to reformat your phone and delete all the data in it.
  3.  Press Select.
  4.  Voila, your phone is back to normal.
  5.  Congratulations.

Last option
Hard Reset (if you CANNOT use anymore the phone's touchscreen)


  1. You need to use the phone's buttons and your 4 fingers to do this trick. :smileywink:
  2. Switch off the phone. (Remove the battery if you cannot turn it off)
  3. Press the buttons: GREEN + RED + CAMERA + ON simultaneously (DO NOT LET GO OF THE BUTTONS) until you see the "Select Country" option after the Nokia's Handshake Welcome Logo appear.:smileysurprised:
  4. Choose your country, enter the date and time.
  5. Voila, your phone is back to normal.
  6. Congratulations.
Note:
If you were asked for a security/lock code, just type: 12345 (unless you changed it)

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